We should never gauge a candidate's conservative credentials based on what he or she may say while campaigning. We must always look at his or her history. And Trump has a well-documented and well-known history of being a liberal. So did Mitt Romney and he was rightly rejected.
Yup. But doing that means no unicorn farming. And people today are too gutless to stand on principle. They want what liberals want. Deniability/excuses/evil.
If they didn’t, they’d back and elect conservatives.
Trump also has a history- on youtube, no less, of saying exactly the same things he’s saying now. Interview with Oprah Winfrey. 1988, IIRC.